Thursday, November 08, 2012

Dodgers Blog Kiosk: 11/8/2012

Fox Sports AM570 and the Paralyzed Veterans of America have teamed up to present a Dodgers charity auction- PVARadiothon- today. Go here for details. Purchase a unique Dodgers field experience and some autographed memorabilia ranging from Kershaw to Willie Mays.

Jon SooHoo put up some awesome Mark McGwire photographs from his archives. I personally like the one with Bobby Bonilla and dinosaurs.

Of the pitching market in general, Colletti said, “It’s not massive.
It’s probably unlikely trade-wise. There are probably three or four
different pitchers we have interest in. We’ll see. It’s still fairly
early in the process. But pitching is most of our concentration right
now.”

Speaking of the election. Nate Silver, a well respected Baseball sabermetrics guy took his knowledge, skills and abilities to analyze political polls. As you might expect from a purely non-partisan statistical analysis, he got the election polls right. Dave Cameron at FanGraphs writes all about it.

The takeaway from last night shouldn’t be “always trust Nate Silver” or
“always trust the data”. The takeaway should be that even mediocre data
is often better than no data, and when you put mediocre data in the
hands of smart people who understand its limitations and adjust
accordingly, it can become quite useful indeed.

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